Sentences with phrase «other new organs»

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Using the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to turn off certain genes in a mouse zygote as well as other new techniques to enrich the pluripotent stem cells of a rat, the group managed to grow various rat organs (a pancreas, heart, and eyes) in a mouse embryo.

New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.

The new directors of the CIA, its main internal branches, the National Security Agency, and many other key organs of the «defense establishment» are now military (or ex-military) officers, strongly suggesting that the military does not need to take over the government in order to control it.

Crystals form naturally all the time, but no one has observed the formation of a new eye, a new wing, or any other organ.

Others bury the placenta under a new tree, as a symbol for the placenta acting like the «tree of life» for the baby and believing the organ will bring richness to the soil to help the tree grow.

Singing and bonding with your baby is fun in this new, four - week program, where music and massage complement each other to both stimulate your baby's brain and relax his muscles and organs.

Bronx State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and Helen Irving, the president and CEO of LiveOnNY, an organ procurement organization, talk to «In Focus» Guest Host Jeanine Ramirez about how it takes far longer to secure an organ transplant in New York than any other state in the country.

By enacting legislation that lowers that age of donors, New York is following the example of 47 other states in opens the state organ donor registry to younger adults in the hopes of increasing enrollment rates.

Reproductive isolation is the key to understanding how new species form, and many types of barriers can divide a population and split it into two different groups: geographic (such as a mountain range, desert, ocean or river), morphological (a change in coloration, body type or reproductive organs), behavioral (a change in breeding season, mating calls or courtship actions), and others.

This work provides a proof of principle for a new approach in the study and treatment of cancer: the aberrant expression in a tissue or organ of genes specific to other tissues could become a new tool for establishing a prognosis and personalizing therapeutic care.

Because the new, smaller, devices are flexible and can be held in place with sutures, they also may have potential uses in or around the bladder, stomach, intestines, heart or other organs, according to co-principal investigator John A. Rogers, PhD, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois.

Working with human breast cancer cells and mouse models of breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer cells to migrate and invade other organs.

Some duplicated genes were lost over time but others took on new functions, including contributions to the development of floral organs.

«This approach could inspire better surgical training tools and implantable heart devices, and opens new possibilities in the emerging field of soft robotics for devices that assist other organs as well.»

A new study, published online in Pediatric Neurology, evaluated children with TSC, which causes malformations and tumors in the brain and other vital organs and has a high prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

To achieve this, the researchers needed new equipment — a platform that would allow tissues to grow and interact with each other — as well as engineered tissue that would accurately mimic the functions of human organs.

The success could point the way to a new type of therapy aimed at repairing intestinal damage in humans, and potentially for repairing damage in other organs.

The system also will allow scientists to test millions of compounds in the environment and new pharmaceuticals to understand how they affect the reproductive system and many other organs in the body.

The new findings suggest that manipulation of NAD could lead to a future therapy for acute kidney injury and also raise the possibility that mitochondrial injury and deficiency in NAD might underlie other types of organ damage, including damage that can lead to stroke or heart attack.

The researchers — and may others at Penn and across the country — hope that this study will be the first step toward unearthing an entirely new pool of available organs — initially for kidneys, and down the line for hearts, lungs, and livers.

Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3 - D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form.

Blocking a protein found on the surface of ovarian cancer cells could prevent or reduce the spread of the disease to other organs, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In diabetes, we may be able to replace the defective beta cells, but regenerative medicine also offers new therapeutic options for other organ defects and diseases.»

Probing the workings of the brain and other organs with xenon has «tremendous potential,» says atomic physicist Gordon Cates of Princeton University in New Jersey.

The new Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute study directly builds on the MagnaSafe study, validating findings of the main MagnaSafe cohort of 1,500 patients, and expanding that group of patients to include those who need an MRI of their lungs, heart or other organs within the chest.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

Other groups are creating new organs by printing them.

An analogous real - world experience is sending a letter to New Scientist, or some other equally august organ.

For the biomarker study, the Johns Hopkins scientists prospectively analyzed blood samples collected from 141 women with advanced breast cancer (cancer that had spread to other organs) who were beginning a new treatment at seven cancer centers in the U.S., including The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

This new paradigm of harnessing endogenous cells to regenerate organs may be broadly applicable to other organs.

This technique could help scientists learn how to make transplanted eyes, ears and other organs better communicate with other tissues in a new host.

«If we can tell the human iPSCs in an animal host to develop into a kidney or other organ, for example, it could provide an entirely new source for transplant tissues,» says Izpisua Belmonte.

A new drug delivery system for treating lung cancer allow chemotherapeutic drugs to be inhaled, thereby delivering the drug where it is needed while reducing the harmful effects to other organs.

Neural stem cells are like stem cells in other tissues and organs — they give birth, if needed, to new cells that replace dead or dying ones.

C - met is a protein that may be overactive in certain cancers, leading to the formation of new blood vessels that help spread the cancer to other organs.

Bacteria in the small intestines of mice and humans can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune response, according to a new study.

In the future, the researchers are looking at using the new material to create new organs and replace damaged ones, as well as fabricate other body tissues.

Suzuki, possibly inspired by his new job as a research scientist at the Research Unit for Organ Regeneration in Kobe, Japan, explains it this way: «Just as humans can start over in life, differentiated cells can also take on other fates following the generation of undifferentiated stem cells.»

A new study finds that long - term exposure to fine - particle air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.

In other words, if you're constantly stressed out, your body perceives that stress the same as if you were running from a bear, deciding that your environment is not safe to bring forth new life and diverting all your energy away from the reproductive system and to the organs necessary for survival.

The liver packages and exports this new fat as VLDL making it widely available for other organs.

Ten weeks later, the volunteers had produced new fat cells around their hearts, livers and other digestive organs.

Now imagine all the other areas that also rely upon new cells — muscles, bones, internal organs, hair, and nails are just a few that benefit when treatment for GH deficiency begins.

These new cells replace the ones that continuously die off from the skin, hair, nails, muscles, bones, and internal organs — in other words — the whole body!

This «new glucose» is what the brain and other organs use for fuel when they need glucose.

When we eat protein foods our bodies break down the proteins into their respective amino acids, and then builds them back up into new proteins that help build muscle and organs and help run other functions in the body.

All told, dozens of studies have now been published on PQQ's spectacular health benefits, finding it effective in triggering new mitochondrial growth, protecting mitochondrial function, and delivering all the health benefits that having robust mitochondria offers for your heart, your brain and every other cell, muscle and organ in your body.

While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these «body brokers» capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army land - mine explosion tests.

His immersion experiences into the motorcycle subculture, the organ transplant milieu and in other heretofore un-mined worlds about which he has written books, including robotics, along with the compelling literary techniques he has developed, has helped to create a new paradigm for writing about the world — the «literature of reality» that is creative nonfiction.

For many people, organ donation is an opportunity to give new hope to others.